· Public charity
Downtown Greensboro Inc
Promote and stimulate new investment, interest and economic development in the center city area of greensboro, north carolina.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $495,884 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $545,830 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $49,946 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $250k+1 grant · $426k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO FOUNDATION | $425,884 |
| NEIGHBORS GSO LLC | $25,000 |
| 112 W LEWIS STREET QOZB LLC | $25,000 |
| NOMUNICATION LLC | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $496k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- GDGREENSBORO DOWNTOWN PARKS INC3× · 2018–2020 · $63k · revenue +16%
- FGForge Greensboro3× · 2018–2022 · $27k · revenue +129%
- AGACTION GREENSBORO2× · 2018–2019 · $26k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- TFThe Foundation for NC A&T State Universitygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $66k · revenue ×21
- TFTHE FRESH MARKETone grant, 2022 · $50k
- 5T5 TALENTS LLCone grant, 2017 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Greensboro opera is a community-based company dedicated to fostering the growth of opera and to presenting professional productions of the highest artistic caliber for the enjoyment, education, and enrichment of the triad region of north…
Together with its diverse communities, the organization collects objects and stories, connects generations, and challenges people to explore our city's past, present and future. the museum sparks wonder through bold exhibitions and…
The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…
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Promote and stimulate new investment, interest and economic development in the center city area of greensboro, north carolina.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
The mission of the center is inspiring curiosity and connecting communities through science and conservation. we accomplish this by providing ever-evolving experiences where exploration and imagination intersect, igniting a lifelong…
Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession
Further enhance tournament town reputation and build an organization with the ability to develop strategic partners to better position greensboro for the execution of major sports events.
Build thriving communities by protecting and renewing our history and architectural treasures.
Evergreen of Greenville, Inc. (the Organization) is a private nonprofit organization dedicated to revitalizing the central business district of Greenville, North Carolina. Originally founded in 1983, Evergreen of Greenville, Inc. was…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carolina Theatre of Greensboro Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Nc a&T State University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for NC A&T State University ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO DOWNTOWN PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Forge Greensboro ↗
- Who funds ACTION GREENSBORO ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXPERIENTIAL SCHOOL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Downtown Greensboro Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.